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Cooperative Conservation Blueprint FAQs | |
What is the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint? The Cooperative Conservation Blueprint (Blueprint) is a process that builds agreement between government and private interests to use common priorities as the basis for statewide land-use decisions. It consists of the following elements:
What is the purpose of the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint? The purpose of the Blueprint is to help to conserve the most vital working landscapes and natural habitats while maintaining a sustainable economy and agriculture opportunities. A public-private partnership will create, publish on-line, and maintain a centralized GIS application of common priorities. The Blueprint will help to guide future land use planning decisions and recommend market-based incentives that encourage conservation. Why develop a Cooperative Conservation Blueprint? The Cooperative Conservation Blueprint is needed for several reasons:
Who is creating the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint? Collaborative work among government agencies and broad-based public user and interest groups will develop the Blueprint. Who is guiding the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint development? A Steering Committee comprised of pubic and private interests provides oversight and direction for the effort. A Core Team manages and guides the process. Contractors and technical experts produce the integrated GIS data layers of priorities, the GIS application, and apply the process, facilitate meetings, and oversee daily activities. What is the Century Commission & FWC's role? The Century Commission for Sustainable Florida, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Defenders of Wildlife provide leadership. The three are partners as members of the Core Team. This group is responsible to gain funding for the effort, oversee project management, and contracting. The Core Team provides support for the Steering Committee and technical expertise where appropriate. How is the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint different from previous conservation planning efforts? The Cooperative Conservation Blueprint differs from previous efforts in several ways:
Who will use the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint? The Blueprint will help government, landowners, nonprofit organizations, businesses and others make sound conservation and economic decisions to guide Florida's future development and achieve long-term sustainability. Why is the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint important? Florida needs the Blueprint to create a common vision to help address what the state will look like 25, 50, and 100 years into the future. It is necessary to create a guide and set of tools that everyone agrees upon, and can easily use. The intent is simple, one-stop shopping to provide information about unified land-use priorities of the state. Where did the idea for a Cooperative Conservation Blueprint come from? The idea came from expert input during the development of "Florida's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy" in 2004 MyFWC.com/WildlifeLegacy. The Cooperative Conservation Blueprint is a priority action for the state (Strategy pg 46-47). The idea also came at about the same time from the Century Commission for Sustainable Florida http://www.centurycommission.org/.The Florida Legislature created the Century Commission in 2005 to envision and plan for Florida's future. The May 2007 product "CLIP, Critical Lands & Waters Identification Project, Phase I Report to the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida" is the beginning of efforts to unify all of the existing excellent natural resource GIS work in Florida into a single database. CLIP Phase II when complete by the end of 2007 will serve as a starting point for the Cooperative Conservation Blueprint by identifying statewide conservation priorities. How can you participate? Your organization can help in many ways:
Who is the primary contact at FWC? Brian Branciforte
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